Bug#314210: grub: wishlist, beep (\007) in menu.lst for blind people

Osvaldo La rosa Osvaldo La rosa <vzwab@tiscali.be>, 314210@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:59:48 +0200


Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-17
Severity: wishlist

Hi,
the latest menu.lst provided with grub is very nice commented; but I miss
some very useful / blindfriendly extra: a beep code sos that a blind knows
always that he/she is at the grub boot: prompt.
Please can you provide such a beep code "\007"
(or  echo -e "007"  if you prefer) with a comment in the automatic generated
menu.lst.

I personaly realized some template but the beep is here on the first title
line, and then it beeps twice: at the prompt, then when it continues with
booting.
The template is available here:
http://brlspeak.net/blinux/my.menu.lst

ThanX.

Osvaldo La Rosa.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information